Customized Incentive Packages

Louisiana offers the Industrial Tax Exemption Program, which provides property tax abatement for up to eight years on a manufacturer’s new investment and annual capitalized addition.

The Quality Jobs program provides up to a 6 percent cash rebate of annual gross payroll for new, direct jobs for up to 10 years. It could also provide a state sales/use rebate on capital expenditures or a 1.5 percent project facility expense rebate for qualified expenses.

In addition, the Digital Interactive Media and Software Development Incentive — the nation’s strongest, most comprehensive incentive for software development — provides a unique advantage to the aerospace industry. The incentive is applicable to customer-facing software, including aerospace-specific applications like navigation, communications, radar, defense and other embedded systems. Eligible projects receive a 25 percent refundable tax credit for payroll expenditures and an 18 percent refundable tax credit for qualified production expenditures. If the amount of tax credits exceeds the business’ state income and franchise tax liabilities, the business receives the balance as a refund.

Louisiana values business investment, and when a company moves or expands its energy industry operations here, it can count on innovative solutions to meet the project’s specific needs. For competitive projects that involve substantial new-job creation, major investment and the majority of sales to out-of-state customers, Louisiana is agile and flexible — customizing incentives and workforce solutions, aligning state and local resources, connecting a company with valuable assets, and coordinating permitting and startup activities to ensure that operations proceed smoothly and on schedule.